CHAPTER SIXTEENStatements
“We might get rid of the small fry first.” Nordhall picked up a carbon from the desk. “Your stooge, Mr. Jennings.” He read aloud:
Statement of Arthur Stone Jennings:
Being an intimate friend of the Dunbar family, I wished to pay a call of condolence last night on Mrs. Richfield Tanner at the Stanton Hotel. I had informed Mrs. Tanner over the telephone that Mr. Henry Gamadge, a classmate of mine and a man of some literary standing, had seen Mr. Robert Macloud that afternoon. Mr. Macloud is a partner of Mr. Angus Dunbar’s and an old friend of Mr. Gamadge’s. Mrs. Tanner expressed a wish to see him and hear what later news about her sister’s tragic death might have come in.
Nordhall looked up. “Sly dog. I mean you.” He went on:
We reached the Stanton at a little
